In between reading books today, I’ve been poking around a bit in publisher catalogs. Here are several books by authors I love that I just discovered are coming in 2016!
Barkskins by Annie Proulx (June 14, 2016)
I was recently rewatching an episode of Black Books where Fran listens to the radio to hear the guy with the sexy voice read the shipping news, and I thought, “The Shipping News… I should read that again. I wonder when she’ll write another book?”
AND HERE IT IS.
Basically, what I’m telling you is that I willed this into existence.
You’re welcome.
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach (June 7)
A NEW MARY ROACH!!!! I love her. If you’ve never read her, she does for science what Sarah Vowell does for history: takes fascinating topics and injects them with humor and hands-on research.
I have to say, of all her books I’ve read, I still love Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers the best.
I don’t know what that says about me.
Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces by Ian Frazier (June 7)
Ian Frazier is hilarious! You’ve probably seen his stuff in the New Yorker. I first read his book of humor essays Dating Your Mom, and he captured my heart with his story about the Bloomsbury Group being famous like a rock band, and Lytton Strachey getting hot grits thrown on him.
(If you don’t know the Al Green grits story, you’ll just have to trust me that it’s funny.)
This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell (July 19)
If you’ve never read Maggie O’Farrell, go do so right now! I’ll wait here.
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See?! I told you. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and Instructions for a Heatwave are AMAZING.
(Note: This book called This Must Be the Place is not to be confused with the wonderful books by Kate Racculia and Sean H. Doyle.)
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (June 21)
Hogarth has a new series in which awesome authors write their own version of a Shakespeare story. This is Anne Tyler’s take on The Taming of the Shrew. It’s going to be hard to beat Moonlighting’s version, but I’m betting she can do it. I heart her so much.
Now and Again by Charlotte Rogan (April 5)
I am a big fan of Charlotte Rogan’s novel The Lifeboat, about a woman on trial for her actions in a lifeboat. I think it would make a great movie. (If it isn’t already. Is it? Nope, just Googled it. Not yet. What do I know – I just keep my head down and read.)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (September 13)
This novel doesn’t even have a cover or a description yet, but I don’t care – I’M SO EXCITED!!!!
If you’ve never read him, you have lots of time to do so before this comes out.
Those are my book thoughts for today. Are you excited about any of these? What other books are you excited for?
I just discovered Barkskins was coming yesterday! (That must have been when you wished it into existence!)
OMG I’m so excited for the Anne Tyler one!!!
Yay yay yay yay yay yay
Ooh, that previous Charlotte Rogan book looks interesting, I’ll check that one out.
I’m suuuuuuper excited that Eowyn Ivey has a new book coming out in August, called To the Bright Edge of the World. (She has a post about it here https://lettersfromalaska.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/to-the-bright-edge-of-the-world/) Her first book, The Snow Child, is one of my absolute all-time faves. It’s one I always recommend to pretty much anyone and everyone 🙂
Ooooooooo, that *is* exciting!
Yay! New Mary Roach and Colson Whitehead! So happy right now.
Yay for the Mary Roach! So excited! I have so many books on my TBR thanks to you. 2016 is going to rock!
Looking forward to The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams, the Fireman by Joe Hill, Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto, the new Daniel Jose Older book, & the Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee!
I spent the last 2.5 years reading all of Don Delillo’s books, so I’m excited as heck that 2016 brings me his new one, “Zero K,” coming in early May! It looks like it might have the the same three “f”s (funny, family, fear of death) as “White Noise,” which makes me all the more excited.